FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Biomedical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
- NIH names only the principal investigators on an award, so this page lists only them. The department is the award's: it is where ScienceDex counts the award, not a list of the department's members.
- These are the awards in the Biomedical Engineering row of the University of Pennsylvania page.
Leads a grant in this department
16 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Zhiliang Cheng
Leads 3 awards · $1,158,972
- 5R01AR086381-02Department: NIH department codeDevelopment of Dual-Action Nanoparticle-Loaded Microparticles for Osteoarthritis Treatment$612,052award amount
- 5R01AR080820-04Department: NIH department codeTreating knee osteoarthritis by sPLA2 inhibitor-loaded micellar nanoparticles$458,118award amount
- 3R01AR080820-04S1Department: NIH department codeTreating knee osteoarthritis by sPLA2 inhibitor-loaded micellar nanoparticles$88,802award amount
Alex Hughes
Leads 2 awards · $1,127,501
- 5R01DK140070-03Department: NIH department codeRhythmic pace-making of nephron induction for renal replacement tissues$687,126award amount
- 5R35GM133380-08Department: NIH department codeA developmental engineering toolbox for controlled epithelial morphogenesis$440,375award amount
Lukasz Bugaj
Leads 2 awards · $1,061,545
- 5R01EB037456-02Department: NIH department codeA molecular toolbox for thermal control of programmed cell death in animals$623,597award amount
- 5R35GM138211-07Department: NIH department codeHarnessing protein clustering to understand, identify, and manipulate cellular systems$437,948award amount
Michael J Mitchell
Leads 2 awards · $981,456
- 1R01HL183505-01A1Department: NIH department codemRNA lipid nanoparticles for myocardial infarction$632,081award amount
- 5R01HD115877-03Department: NIH department codemRNA lipid nanoparticles for pre-eclampsia$349,375award amount
Yihui Shen
Leads 2 awards · $852,352
- 1R21DE036022-01Department: NIH department codeHigh-resolution metabolic imaging of HPV+ head and neck tumors ex vivo$427,839award amount
- 1R35GM166382-01Department: NIH department codeSystems biology approach for understanding metabolic support of diversity in proliferating cells$424,513award amount
Beth A Winkelstein
Leads 1 award · $632,484
- 5U24AT011978-05Department: NIH department codeSPINE-WORK: An inclusive research community to study and improve force-based manipulations for spine pain
Principal investigators: Beth A Winkelstein (contact PI), Victor H Barocas
$632,484award amount
Ning Jenny Jiang
Leads 2 awards · $617,136
- 1R21AG099004-01Department: NIH department codeDecoding antigen specific T cells in frontotemporal degeneration$425,235award amount
- 1R21NS149191-01Department: NIH department codeDecoding antigen specific CD4+ T cells in TDP-43 proteinopathy$191,901award amount
Daniel A Hammer
Leads 1 award · $438,609
- 1R35GM161553-01Department: NIH department codeCombining gene editing with traction force microscopy to achieve a comprehensive understanding of mechanotransduction in leukocyte motility$438,609award amount
Noor Momin
Leads 1 award · $418,263
- 1R35GM166468-01Department: NIH department codeA framework for rational design of therapeutic siRNA conjugates Sponsor$418,263award amount
Claudia Loebel
Leads 1 award · $406,250
- 5R35GM157063-02Department: NIH department codeImplementing the nascent ECM into the dynamic reciprocity of cell-ECM interactions$406,250award amount
Pranam Chatterjee
Leads 1 award · $387,544
- 5R35GM155282-04Department: NIH department codeTowards the Design of a Programmable, Isoform-Selective Proteome Editing System$387,544award amount
David Aaron Issadore
Leads 1 award · $377,941
- 5R33CA287135-03Department: NIH department codeHigh Throughput Digital Droplet Assays for Ultrasensitive Multimodal (DNA, RNA, and Protein) Diagnostics$377,941award amount
Andrew Tsourkas
Leads 1 award · $182,764
- 5R21CA301137-02Department: NIH department codeTumor-site activated T cell redirecting autoantibodies$182,764award amount
Marshall Scott Padilla
Leads 1 award · $119,880
- 1K99DE034831-01A1Department: NIH department codeAn Optimized Lipid Nanoparticle for Tumor Suppressor Restoration and Immunotherapy for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma$119,880award amount
Julia Noel Fleming
Leads 1 award · $54,538
- 1F30DK145200-01A1Department: NIH department codeCharacterizing Antigen Presentation and Adaptive Immunity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease$54,538award amount
Rohan Dipak Patel
Leads 1 award · $50,114
- 5F31HG014082-02Department: NIH department codeElucidating the interplay between cohesin-mediated loop extrusion and heterochromatin in single cells.$50,114award amount
Co-investigators
Named as principal investigators on these awards, which someone else leads. They may belong to another department or institution: their own, below, comes from the awards they lead.
Victor H Barocas
Co-investigator on 5U24AT011978-05, led by Beth A Winkelstein
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- University of Minnesota · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code, 1 award)
Also counted toward University of Pennsylvania in the Biomedical Engineering ranking
Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Pennsylvania. With University of Pennsylvania's own 23 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #13, $10,393,771, 26 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.